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Introducing a Book:

SAM WALTON: Made in America – My Story
Sam Walton with John Huey

M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.

Courtesy:
https://www.amazon.com

Sam Walton (Samuel Moore Walton 1918-1992), the founder of Walmart and Sams Club, narrates his life story in this fascinating and inspiring book. He writes in his foreword to the book, “… it can capture for you at least something of the spirit we’ve all felt in building this company.” He also writes, “… I think more than anything it proves there’s absolutely no limit to what pain ordinary working people can accomplish if they’re given the opportunity and encouragement and the incentive to do their best.” He says, “Wal-mart became Wal-mart: ordinary people joined together to accomplish extraordinary things.”

Sam writes about his childhood, “We never thought of ourselves as poor, although we certainly didn’t have much of what you’d call disposable income lying around, and we did what we could to raise a dollar here and there.” He helped his mother in her “little” milk business. He would “get up early in the morning and milk the cows, and I’d deliver it …” When he was seven or eight years old, he started selling magazine subscriptions. He distributed newspapers “from the seventh grade all the way through college.” Because of all these efforts he learned that “it was important for us kids to help provide for the home, to be contributors rather than just takers.” He learned how much hard work it took to g et your hands on …”

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M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
msthirumalai2@gmail.com

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